Education: Keeping Score

All spring on campus, if the fuss was familiar, so was the issue:
divestment. At Harvard, students boycotted classes for a day and
picketed the trustees. So did students at Brandeis. At Columbia they
staged guerrilla theater protest shows; at Yale, angry students
confronted the university's governing corporation. As they have for years,
demonstrators here and there around the U.S. were demanding that their
colleges sell all stock in South Africa-related industry. Their charge:
the $1.75 billion (17% of South Africa's foreign capital) invested by
350 U.S. companies in the apartheid nation and the...